Off topic, Heritage tomatoes

[Guest]

my wife grows these in the garden , kinda sad just having the last one for breakfast . anyone who hasn't tried these really needs to ! they are so juicy and tasty it's unbelievable . they grow all weird and different shapes but you have to be careful when you cut them they are so juicy . wonder if there is any way you could buy them in the winter? really sad how they have bred the flavor out of nearly everything so it will keep for a month

[Guest]

though I could outsmart agriville by turning phone on side , guess not , now tomatoe is stuck to roof , lol

[farmaholic]

You must keep your own seed. I think that works doesn't it? Ever try growing them in pots in the house. Tomato plants kinda smell but I wonder if you could grow your own inside all winter. Just stagger planting dates so you always have new produce coming. Just a thought.

Some factory farm vegetables barely resemble what they are supposed to be in color, flavor and texture!

[danny W1M]

I've grown tomato plants from the seeds taken from the fruit. I love eating the smaller cherry sized ones, especially while BBQen. Have pots of them on the deck(my garden)
Just take a tomato, cut it into smaller pieces, leave uncovered on a paper towel, on a plate. The open air will dry out the tomato, and after a while(depends on how large your pieces are), you can harvest the dry seeds from the dry tomato pieces.

I'm a farmer after all.

[sumdumguy]

We make a lot of our own seed - Cucs, all melons and squash, tomatoes, peppers, peas, beans, carrots,radish, parsnip, never made corn. i just rub them onto paper towels (space them out) to dry and if they stick, who cares, they can be planted with the paper. Peppers, just buy them in the store and plant seeds right into ground. We were in London Ont. at a farmers market where we were buying all different coloured squash and a stand owner asked what we were doing. We told him we were taking them home for seed. He was floored and said he had never thought of making his own seed. The main thing with seed is you gotta let the fruit ripen to almost rotten on the vine for real vigorous seed.

[GOODRUM]

We make a lot of our own seed - Cucs, all melons and squash, tomatoes, peppers, peas, beans, carrots,radish, parsnip, never made corn. i just rub them onto paper towels (space them out) to dry and if they stick, who cares, they can be planted with the paper. Peppers, just buy them in the store and plant seeds right into ground. We were in London Ont. at a farmers market where we were buying all different coloured squash and a stand owner asked what we were doing. We told him we were taking them home for seed. He was floored and said he had never thought of making his own seed. The main thing with seed is you gotta let the fruit ripen to almost rotten on the vine for real vigorous seed.

No PBR on squash??

[15444]

Grew the heritage variety this year, was not impressed. Lots of blight and disease in them (not in any others) and so small and odd shaped that they were useless. Won't grow again. Will stick with Beefsteak and Roma varieties. We planted 72 tomatoes this year in the garden of multiple varieties. Make a lot of salsa with them for ourselves and family.

[Guest]

beefsteak very good also

[sumdumguy]

No PBR on squash??

Not yet, they better get on it. 👹

[sumdumguy]

Grew the heritage variety this year, was not impressed. Lots of blight and disease in them (not in any others) and so small and odd shaped that they were useless. Won't grow again. Will stick with Beefsteak and Roma varieties. We planted 72 tomatoes this year in the garden of multiple varieties. Make a lot of salsa with them for ourselves and family.

Do you have a good recipe?

[15444]

Do you have a good recipe?

I'll find it and post tomorrow. It's in an old Luthern cookbook. Yes, it is phenomenal. Make 100+ pint and quart jars a year and we always run out before the next year's batch. Quite often for lunch I will spread black pepper Triscuit crackers over a platter, melt Havarti cheese over them and add a teaspoon of salsa to each cracker - damn good stuff.

[bluefargo]

Now this is a topic I can get interested in.
For my retirement project I am going to find the perfect tomatoe. I tried 10 store bought varieties this year. Some were passable. On a scale from 1 to 10 there were a few that were a 6 or 7. But none had the kick ass flavour that I am looking for. I may try some heritage varieties next year. I found the above discussion helpful.
Any recommendations on varieties are appreciated.

[Guest]

Now this is a topic I can get interested in.
For my retirement project I am going to find the perfect tomatoe. I tried 10 store bought varieties this year. Some were passable. On a scale from 1 to 10 there were a few that were a 6 or 7. But none had the kick ass flavour that I am looking for. I may try some heritage varieties next year. I found the above discussion helpful.
Any recommendations on varieties are appreciated.

thats the trouble , not sure which heritage variety this is , sure is good. as 15444 said , beefsteak is an excellent one also

[burnt]

We had one for lunch - my wife, the gardener, had lost track of what variety it was. Just a plant that she grew from seed she kept back from another year.

A paler red tomato, it had far more flesh, flavor and fewer seeds than the beefsteak type that we usually grow.

They are not the perfectly symmetrical tomato but very large and solid. Beats the conventional type hands down.

[sumdumguy]

We had one for lunch - my wife, the gardener, had lost track of what variety it was. Just a plant that she grew from seed she kept back from another year.

A paler red tomato, it had far more flesh, flavor and fewer seeds than the beefsteak type that we usually grow.

They are not the perfectly symmetrical tomato but very large and solid. Beats the conventional type hands down.

Pointed bottom could be Ox Heart, very fleshy but not always great shape. I saved seed from a super meaty kinda pink tomatoe, those will be started next year as heavy producers, large and meaty. It was hard to find seeds in those tomatoes. I am not looking forward to store-bought tomatoes all winter.